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Road Trips

One a year Page Field in Fort Myers, Florida, hosts its Aviation Day. The event draws large crowds and lots of interesting planes and aviation personalities. Dan Linton attended the event and offers a report on the planes he saw and the people he met.

Flight SimCon 2014 was held at the New England Air Museum recently. The convention concentrated on simpit construction and networked multi-player flying and included seminars and exhibits on these and other subjects. Nels Anderson represented FlightSim.Com at the event and reports on the happenings.

FlightSim.Com reports of the annual Sun 'n Fun event held in Lakeland, Florida. Sun 'n Fun is a fly-in, airshow, aviation convention and more all rolled into one. We visit some high end simulators, check our airplanes old and new and offer a report in words and pictures.

Did you know there is a museum of flight simulation? Well, there is and Bill Smith has taken a road trip to visit it. Through people he has met through flightsimming he's also toured other great aviation museums and he tells the stories of the people and places here.

The are many ways to enjoy aviation in addition to flight simulation and a road trip to an aviation event is always a great time. Nels Anderson shares his visit to the New England Jet Rally, a gathering of R/C plane and pilots.

Taking advantage of a rare trip away from home, FlightSim.Com webmaster visits Dayton, Ohio, and the National Museum of the US Air Force. Dayton, home of the Wright Brothers, is a perfect setting for a world class museum like this and its exhibits make for a fascinating if all too brief visit.

A few days ago, FlightSim.Com and a select group of others was invited behind the scenes at the Aces Studio complex in Redmond, Washington where the next version of Microsoft Flight Simulator, FSX is under development. Now we can reveal what we learned and share the latest details on the sim that we'll all be flying this fall. Learn more here.

Anyone familiar with their products know that the DreamFleet team are fans of Piper aircraft, not least because DreamFleet owner Lou Betti flies a Piper Dakota himself. Recently, Lou flew out to Lock Haven, Pennsylvania, the original home of Piper Aircraft and visited the museum there. In this feature story, he shares his visit as well as some Piper history.

Flightsimmers do of course appreciate real aircraft too, especially those that are of great historical significance, and there are few collections of aircraft more significant than that of the Smithsonian Institute. For many years are large portion of the collection was not on display, but the with opening of the new Udvar-Hazy Facility adjacent to Dulles airport this has been greatly improved. Avid flightsimmer Tony Martin lives in the area and has visited the recently opened facility a number of times already and today offers his personal tour in both words and photos. Plus, Tony also researched availability of flightsim versions of the famous planes and found that many of them are available for us to fly. The article includes his complete list with links.